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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A locomotive train.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Baby talk a train or a locomotive; -- a child's word.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun childish The sound made by a steam locomotive.
  • noun childish A railway locomotive.
  • noun childish A railway train. (Also called a choo-choo train)

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a child's word for locomotive

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From baby-talk imitation of the sound of a locomotive whistle.]

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